We analyze personal open market trades by managers around stock repurchases by tender offer. With the exception of Dutch auction offers, managers trade their firm's shares prior to repurchase announcements as though repurchases convey favorable inside information to outsiders. Prior to fixed...

Among U.S. industrial companies that are not acquired we compare top management turnover between an active takeover period (1984-1988) and a less active period (1989-1993). For firms in the lowest quartile of performance, as measured by operating income scaled by assets, 33% subsequently...

Conservative financial policies are often criticized as serving the interests of managers rather than the interests of stockholders. We test this argument by examining the operating performance and other characteristics of firms that for a five-year period held more than one-fourth of their...

This paper examines evidence related to voting rules and the market for voting rights. Several important findings emerge from recent studies. One set of evidence implies that it is desirable to have an active market in voting rights of a firm while another set of evidence indicates that...